Subject: Re: Frank Luntz- on tonights Biden interview,
He's losing because both Democrats and Republicans are focused on his age issue. Republicans are never going to care about their candidate's deficiencies. They simply line up behind him. So no one is focusing on Trump's deficiencies.

There is no one, not a single person in the Republic who doesn’t know of his “deficiencies.” They have been written about and broadcast far and wide for YEARS. You are not going to convinced anybody that he is more horrible that he already is horrible.

Democrats are not going to hate him less, Republicans are not going to like him less - indeed, they see most of his foibles as a feature, not a bug. After his conviction in the rape/molestation case, his polls went UP, and his donations soared. After he was convicted of 34 felonies his polls went UP and his donations soared again.

What’s amazing is that you can’t accept that broadcasting this truth is going to change anything. OF COURSE Democrats are concerned with this “new” revelation about their candidate. It does nothing to hurt the opponent, and is potentially crippling to theirs.

And you think if people just “stop talking about it” then everything will be fine, and Trump will lose. That is ABSOLUTELY not how it works.

You saw him at the rally in NC less than 24 hours after the debate. He conveyed his message directly and convincingly. Get him in that setting and he will do his job.

He was reading off a teleprompter. In front of a partisan rally. Seen by maybe 1/10th as many people. Do you not understand that this is not convincing in the slightest, nor is it how you bend the trend in a campaign?

The choice is really simple. And it has nothing to do with Biden. Nothing at all.

It has EVERYTHING to do with Biden - now. This is politics. If you want loyalty, get a dog. If you want to win an election then understand what the electorate is feeling and thinking and then address it. You are not going to assuage the “age/capability” issue with references to the past (we all know the condition gets worse) nor by ignoring it (because we all saw it) nor by carefully scripted and stage managed interviews.

Or, you know, you can ignore it and hope it goes away. But hope, as is famously said, is not a strategy.